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Chapter 12 Wires
c. Add a configuration line for the new wire service. By convention,
the configuration lines are arranged according to device number.
For instance, the configuration line for the wire service with device
number 16 would be placed after the configuration line for device
15.
A wire program’s configuration line uses this format:
wire <dev #> <speed> <program> <source> <join option>
Parameter
Description
device #
The wire’s device number. Include this device number in device
numbers list in the configuration line for the PCU.
speed
Sets baud rate (bits per second) at which the wire communicates
with the PCU.
program
Used to process the wire. Ask the wire provider which
communications standard the wire conforms to.
source
The wire’s source name (capitalized portion of the distribution
name—AP, UP, and so forth). It is the same as the source name
used in the wire distribution story. Use the source name to create
an entry in the wire distribution story and keyword search job list
for the wire program. The source name is prepended to the
category and priority code information collected from the story
to form the distribution code. The distribution code is limited to
10 characters, so care must be taken to prevent the distribution
code from being truncated because of a long source name.
join
option
Links stories that have the same title. It is used with wire services
that routinely break stories into multiple takes. If you place
join in this position, users can view all takes of a story with the
get all or read all workstation commands. To leave this
option out of the configuration line, enter a hyphen.
For instance, the wire program device number is 16, and it needs to
communicate with the wire service at a speed of 1200 baud, 7 bit, even
parity. Also, the wire program uses the anpa7 program, and will be
referred to as AP. So, AP is the wire’s source. The new device
configuration line looks like this:
wire
360
16
1200-7e
anpa7
AP -
; ap wire